Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | The appointment of a chaperone enabled four women teachers to accompany this early party which spent eight strenuous days completing walking climbs of twenty miles or so and evenings listening to lectures on Ruskin and places of interest . |
| 2 | And much though I appreciate your relentless exhumation of the world 's injustices month by month , I find myself hankering after the wacky old days . |
| 3 | In an historic few days , Australian Rugby sanctions against South Africa were lifted , an invitation for the Wallabies to tour the Republic in August was issued and accepted and the heavyweight unions from Australia , New Zealand , South Africa and Argentina agreed to combine their collective muscle and form the Southern Hemisphere Rugby Alliance . |
| 4 | It 's been a very trying few days . |
| 5 | And spokesman Trevor East admitted : ‘ It 's been a trying few days for us and we are very disappointed to miss out again . |
| 6 | Warships , pleasure boats , container ships — Britain 's royal yacht Britannia was due some days later — all saving themselves 8,000 miles and three weeks of sailing round the Horn . |
| 7 | All this means , of course , that Meatless Days is much harder to read than The Knox Brothers . |
| 8 | It took an historic 53 days to get the Bill through Committee , under the expert chairmanship of my hon. Friend the Member for Tatton ( Mr. Hamilton ) , who was present on the Front Bench today . |
| 9 | On Aug. 12 the UN Security Council decided to renew for a further 120 days the sanctions which had been imposed against Libya in April [ see p. 38883 ] . |
| 10 | Following a Security Council meeting of Dec. 9 , the UN extended for a further 120 days the application of limited sanctions against Libya , in force since April [ see p. 38839 ] . |
| 11 | ‘ I have a good business partner but I still find it hard dealing with this 365 days a year . |
| 12 | Afterwards we had spent a few stolen days at the ski resort of Grindelwald , in the shadow of the Eiger North Face . |
| 13 | He was in Heymouth for another eight days and … |
| 14 | Yes , you were right , Mr Greene , and there are another eight days until we reach the ‘ Bend in the River ’ and the centre of the African equatorial rain forest . |
| 15 | ‘ The fans did a magnificent job for us tonight , and this result will keep the city buzzing for another eight days . ’ |
| 16 | But if she took the stallion at the end of that three weeks , he came back in another eleven days in case er she was n't settled you see . |
| 17 | By the end of that book , though , they have got to the 13th March , some eight days later than the last events of which we are told in Book III . |
| 18 | Now The Trust Deed and rules were asked for prior to their consent and the company made it clear that they would not be available until after the new scheme commenced on the first October nineteen ninety and indeed it was some eight days later on the ninth October at er Trustee meeting that the company presented the Trust Deed and rules and it was resolved that the Committee of Management would er transfer all the close scheme members er into the new nineteen ninety scheme and er the same Trustees appointed themselves er Trustees of the nineteen ninety scheme and one hour later were the presentation of a draft deed amending the British Steel Pension Scheme and a draft interim Trust Deed establishing the British Steel Pension Scheme in nineteen ninety and a draft Trust Deed and rules of the British Steel Pension Scheme of nineteen ninety were tabled for noting ; and those very Trustees that were on the first meeting agreed to transfer the assets to the new scheme , set as Trustees of the new scheme one hour later , accepted the assets and er without er seeking either legal or actuarial advice and in this case er Watsons were advisors to the company to the old scheme Trustees and to the new scheme Trustees . |
| 19 | After four weeks the trainee returns for formal basic training of a further eight days . |
| 20 | A few hard-earned days of R and R , as the Americans put it , away from everything and everyone — or so I thought . |
| 21 | A few odd days of film work slotted neatly round that weekend , leaving her no ready excuse apart from cowardice . |
| 22 | It was another few days before Endill met the scientist , whose name was Blunset , for the third time . |
| 23 | We visited Emily at her school in early December , and had another few days in Harrogate , having enjoyed the conference there . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's only for another few days then I 'll sign off , ’ Dad promised . |
| 25 | They 're keeping him in hospital for another few days to carry out more tests . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Ah , we can leave that for another few days , then I 'll see one of these film people the General mentioned . |
| 27 | ‘ I had hoped to make it this week , but it is still a bit sore and , with the British Open in mind , I felt another few days rest would be a safer precaution . ’ |
| 28 | After a further few days I brought my suitcases up from London . |
| 29 | Few few days . |
| 30 | It was a human embryo of some forty days that had been somehow arrested , then grown to its own obscene maturity . |